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The Traitor's Story
The Traitor's Story
The Traitor's Story
Audiobook10 hours

The Traitor's Story

Written by Kevin Wignall

Narrated by Simon Vance

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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When fifteen-year-old American Hailey Portman goes missing in Switzerland, her desperate parents seek the help of their neighbor, Finn Harrington, a seemingly quiet historian rumored to be a former spy.

Sensing the story runs deeper than anyone yet knows, Finn reluctantly agrees to make some enquiries. He has little to go on other than his instincts, and his instincts have been wrong in the past—sometimes spectacularly wrong.

But he gets involved anyway, never imagining that Hailey’s disappearance might be linked to the tragic events that ended his career six years earlier, drawing him back into a deadly world that has neither forgiven nor forgotten.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 21, 2016
ISBN9781511391320
The Traitor's Story
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Kevin Wignall

Kevin Wignall is a British writer, born in Brussels in 1967. He spent many years as an army child in different parts of Europe and went on to study politics and international relations at Lancaster University. He became a full-time writer after the publication of his first book, People Die (2001). His other novels are Among the Dead (2002); Who is Conrad Hirst? (2007), shortlisted for the Edgar Award and the Barry Award; Dark Flag (2010); The Hunter’s Prayer (2015, originally titled For the Dogs in the USA), which was made into a film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Sam Worthington and Odeya Rush; A Death in Sweden (2016); The Traitor’s Story (2016); and A Fragile Thing (2017); and To Die in Vienna (2018).

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Surprised Me

    I started and stopped this book twice. The beginning was really slow, but I couldn't find anything else I wanted to read, so I came back to it. Very glad I did because it was very good.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I may have been influenced by some personal bias here (see below for that) but this seemed extremely weak in terms of engaging characters and plot. Ex-spy Finn Harrington (the supposed "traitor" of the title) searches for the runaway daughter of a neighbour due to her possible connection to his past which turns out to be a story of how he rescued a possible sex-trafficked teenager from an Estonian mob figure in Tallinn during his espionage days. It all seemed pretty thin and not very dramatic.After leaving his espionage career behind Harrington is a historical non-fiction writer and keeps explaining to anyone who will listen that his next book is about the Albigensian Crusade and the persecuted Cathar sect in early 13th century France (the original use of the expression "Kill them all, God will know his own," supposedly said by the Papal legate). That story seemed much more interesting than the one he was investigating.I'll confess to an Estonian bias here: The villain Karasek has a name previously completely unknown to me in any Estonian context, but he is definitely described as "the Estonian" who "spoke Estonian." Tallinn, Estonia is the setting for the pre-story here but there isn't anything specifically described that leaves any impression of detailed research having taken place. So all of that left a weak impression on me. I realize that it won't matter to others.